In a lively collection of fables, lyrics, humor, aphorisms, riddles, rhyme, and reason, FINAL THOUGHTS presents one mortal's quest to laugh at death.CONTENTS:Introduction;01 - PARABLES and FABLES: About Paradoxes and Foibles;02 - EPIGRAMS and EPITAPHS: As Life Is a Joke, so Death Is Its Laughter;03 - REAL-LIFE DIALOGS with DEATH: Cryptic True Tales of the Crypt; 04 - The LOST ART of DYING: in Art as in Life (or is it the reverse?); 05 - PORTRAIT of the ARTIST as a YOUNG CORPSE: Story Without a Beginning or a Middle, Just an End; 06 - EULOGIES to TWO WHO DIED TOO SOON: To Two Not Forgotten;07 - WALKING to OUR GRAVES: Walking in the March of Time;List of Illustrations